Wednesday's Anchovies

This is our 2nd day at Siem Reap, yet, another leisure day for us :P After brunch, we decided to go to Tonle Sap Lake. We took day tour package offered by our hotel, hopped onto the tuk-tuk and here we go! On the tuk-tuk. It is actually quite nice to sit behind a tuk-tuk, enjoy the view with wind blowing on your face. The only thing not-so-good thing is DUST. Recommended to bring along face mask or any scarf. Stop to refill gasoline. Simple store operated by the locals. Gasoline sell in bottles. Journey to Tonle Sap Lake from Siem Reap town is around half an hour by tuk-tuk. If you are on bike, it would be a great experience since you would pass by villages, rivers, lotus farm and etc which make you closer to local’s life. The route is flat, easy for cycling. Tonle Sap Lake is the largest fresh water lake in South East Asia. There are more than thousand families staying at the lake, where they live on floating houses which can be move everywhere and ear...

Click HERE for our full itinerary. A trip to Thailand would not be completed if you didn’t pay a visit to floating market. Well, we are not interested with goods (majority are souvenirs) sold over there, but it was a great experience to see how locals earn their living on “water”. We spent around 1 and a half hours travelled from Bangkok city center to Damneon Sa Douk Floating Village, by taxi. Layout of the floating village. Once we reached there, we had to pay for the boat to enter to the village. One boat can allocate 5 passengers and 1 boat driver. Charges: i)                     2000Baht per boat for 1 hour ii)                    3000Baht per boat for 2 hours We took the 1hour tour and h ere we go! The boat! First, the boat goes around canal with mango tree...